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Book SynopsisChapter 1: Introduction and Recommended Reading.- Chapter 2: “He looks not like the People of the lower Orb”: Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon as Proto-Lunar Gothic.- Chapter 3: Phases of the Moon in Varney the Vampire; or, the Feast of Blood.- Chapter 4: Satire, Science, and Skepticism: Viewing the Lunar Hoaxes of Edgar Allen Poe and Richard Adams Locke as Discourse on Uncertainty in the Antebellum Period.- Chapter 5: When the Full Moon Rises: Masculinities, Aging, and Updating the Lycanthropic Myth in Stephen King’s Cycle of the Werewolf.- Chapter 6: “the terror of the rustics”; or, Witches and Werewolves: Lunar and ecoGothic Monstrosities in Catherine Crowe’s “A Story of a Weir-Wolf” (1846) and The Nightside of Nature (1847).- Chapter 7: Children of the Night’s Light: The Moon as a Structuring Element of Vampire Fiction from Polidori’s The Vampyre to The Twilight Saga.- Chapter 8: Crackle and Drag: Sylvia Plath’s lunar Gothic in “The Moon and the Yew Tree,” “The Rival” and “Edge.”.- Chapter 9: Illuminating the Darkness: Lunar Representation in Children’s Literature.- Chapter 10: The Lunar Poetics of Transformation in “The Yellow Wallpaper”.- Chapter 11: Lunacy: Anxieties on Modernity in Luigi Bazzoni’s Footprints in the Moon.- Chapter 12: The Moon as Mirror in The Hungry Moon, Waking the Moon, and Moondial.- Chapter 13: Lunar Gothic and the Grotesque in Hushang Golshiri’s “The wolf”.- Chapter 14: The Moon in Requiem for a Beast: An Apophasis of Colonial Transgression and Indigenous Suppression.- Chapter 15: Moon, Music, and Melancholia: Gothic Aesthetics in Kuroshitisuji’s Lacrimosa.- Chapter 16: “Blood Moon”: Lunar Monstrous Spaces in Gothic Science Fiction.- Chapter 17: Sterility Across Chasms: Dead Worlds and Technological Imaginations in Meredith Ann Pierces Darkangel Series.
